• Rose West allowed to keep Co-op bank account
• Feminists debanked for ‘blasphemy’ against trans ideology
• Co-op more concerned with West’s daughter’s inconvenience than feminist group’s
The Co-op bank, which markets itself as ethical, recently came under fire for allowing serial killer Rose West to keep her account, while debanking a feminist group for their ‘blasphemy against trans cult’. This is despite the fact that the group’s only ‘transgression’ was accurately describing women as adult human females.
It appears that in the world of ‘ethical’ woke banks, feminists are being punished for speaking the truth, while those who commit serious crimes can keep their accounts. This reveals a new level of lunacy, where the corporate elites prioritize the rights of the transgender community over those of women.
The internal ‘Values and Ethics report’ of the Co-op bank states that the feminist group was debanked due to their refusal to accept the rights of the transgender community. However, when Rose West’s account was reviewed, the bank decided to keep it open due to her daughter’s potential inconvenience if it was closed.
This further illustrates the double standards that exist in the banking industry, where those who commit serious crimes are given preferential treatment over those who simply express their beliefs.
It is clear that something needs to be done in order to ensure the safety and security of feminist groups, and to ensure that banks are taking a consistent ethical approach to their customers.
Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator responds to the news that in the world of ‘ethical’ woke banks, feminists get debanked for blasphemy against the trans cult while serial killers like Rose West get to keep their accounts. He argues that this is a new level of lunacy, where the corporate elites prioritize the rights of the transgender community over those of women.
The Co-op bank’s internal ‘Values and Ethics report’ confirms this. When Rose West’s account was reviewed, the bank decided to keep it open due to her daughter’s potential inconvenience if it was closed. However, the feminist group was denied an account due to their refusal to accept the rights of the transgender community.
This shows that there are double standards in the banking industry, and that those who commit serious crimes are being given preferential treatment over those who simply express their beliefs.
It is evident that something needs to be done in order to ensure the safety and security of feminist groups, and to ensure that banks are taking a consistent ethical approach to their customers.
Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator responds to the news that in the world of ‘ethical’ woke banks, feminists get debanked for blasphemy against the trans cult while serial killers like Rose West get to keep their accounts. Here’s an excerpt.
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any madder, you find out the following: at the Co-operative bank, if you’re a murderer of women you can keep your account, but if you accurately describe women as adult human females, you can’t.
According to news reports, the Co-op bank, which prides itself on being super-ethical, allowed the serial killer Rose West to keep her account. But then it debanked a feminist group on the basis that it is hostile to the rights of transgender people.
We don’t know which feminist group it was, or what exactly it says about trans rights. But we can hazard a guess. Feminists are pilloried for the mildest of blasphemies against trans ideology. Even saying “trans women are not women” – a straight-up scientific fact – is enough to get the mob tapping their pitchforks on your door these days.
So it is possible we now live in a world where someone who collaborated in the torture and murder of at least nine young women is welcome at an ethical bank, while those who say “women don’t have penises” are not.
Reader, a new level of lunacy has been reached.
Apparently the Co-op bank considered closing West’s account when it carried out a review of customers with criminal records 10 years ago. But it decided that the monster from Gloucester should stay as a customer because the account was mainly being used by her daughter, and she would have been unfairly inconvenienced if the account disappeared.
No such concern about inconvenience was extended to the unnamed feminist group. Those wicked women were unceremoniously debanked by the Co-op in 2017. According to an internal “Values and Ethics report”, the feminists were turned down for an account because they “actively declined the rights of the transgender community”.
So this is “ethics”. This is what the corporate elites mean when they talk about values and doing the right thing. They mean they are willing to host bank accounts in the name of one of the most notorious murderers of modern times but not in the name of those political Jezebels who insist – brace yourselves – that sex is real.
Worth reading in full.
